Olympics
Olympic Rings
Intro
The Olympics are a worldwide celebration of the best athletes in the world that promotes peace and unity. There are no honors greater for athletes than winning a gold medal for their country. This incredible achievement may be influenced by obvious variables such as physical traits of the athletes, the type of olympics (summer or winter), or variables that one would not think are immediately related to sports. We suspect that factors such as a country’s total GDP and Population. We explore if these factors influence the number of medals won in the Olympics in this blog. Our aim is to deepen our understanding of what factors influence a country’s success in the games and spread the information in hopes that there may be a solution to even the playing field.
USA Medal Exploration
The above medal time graph demonstrates the number of medals that the United States won each year that the Olympics were held. This allows us to see how the United States has performed at the Olympic stage. The graph has very sharp curves up and down which represent the medal differences between the summer and winter olympics. The USA tends to win more medals in the summer Olympics than the Winter olympics.
2016 Olympic Data Analysis
The above graph shows the relationship between a Country’s GDP and the number of medals that they won at the 2016 Olympic games. There is a large cluster of countrys with low GDP and low medal count, as there are a lot of small countries that are not large medal winners. This graph shows that only two countries, namely the United States and China, are above the 50 medal count threshold. Consequently, those two countries have much greater GDP in comparison to other countries. The size of the points is related to that countries relative population. We can see that population is not as predictive of medal count as GDP is. This is because there are large and small points at both directions of the y axis (medal count).
GDP and Population Country Maps (2010)
This map displays Total GDP in 2010 for countries around the world. Lighter shades indicate a lower total GDP, while darker shades represent a higher GDP. Countries such as China, The United States of America, and Japan are among the countries with the highest Total GDP. Users can hover over the country of their choice to identify the country’s name and its Total GDP.
This map displays populations for countries around the world in 2010. Lighter shades indicate a relatively low population, while dark shades indicate a relatively high population. China and India are among the countries with the highest total population by a considerable margin. Users can hover over the country of their choice to identify the country’s name and its population.